Are you a young man from a clan who only wants to study and seek employment?
——Answered. But the imperial examination is abolished, and your path is cut off from now on.
Do you think you only have a key to the ancestral hall in your hand?
——Answered. But this key holds not only the family property, but also the last dignity of the old order.
Do you think the account book is just about the deposits and withdrawals of money?
——Answered. But salt courses, railway stocks, and free warehouses, every line and word can overturn the fate of a city.
You said you were just a telegraph apprentice?
——Answered. But electric current runs faster than a horse and is more valuable than a human life.
You said you are just a partner of a small factory?
——Answered. But strikes and negotiations at the factory gate can be fatal every time.
The chaos of 1911, the trend to protect the road, the call for the May Fourth Movement, the infiltration of foreign capital, the Northern Expedition to the South...
For more than thirty years, they wrote the chess game of life and death in Linjiang between the ancestral hall and the factory gate.
Some people die because of words, and some people live because of words.
This is the secret of Gengzi's account book and the whereabouts of the two keys.
——They are not heroes, just ordinary people.
But before the river rushes into the sea, let future generations know: the facts have been printed before.
